Rep. Mike Pence took to the House floor and lambasted President Obama, charging “since the stimulus was enacted, more than 3 million jobs have been lost in this country”, despite the administration saying quite the opposite. Pence notes the administration is not basing their jobs figures off actual numbers, but rather “what economists say is a highly-inflated projection of how much economic growth is created | Read More »

…while smoking cigarettes. Giannoulias: The Giannoulias Democratic Illinois Senate campaign confirmed Monday–after prodding from the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee–that Alexi Giannoulias was in Canada on Sunday attending a fund-raiser at a trial lawyer convention in Vancouver that would benefit his Senate campaign. Fisher: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lee Fisher was in Canada yesterday to attend a reception with a group of American trial lawyers | Read More »

…while smoking cigarettes. Giannoulias: The Giannoulias Democratic Illinois Senate campaign confirmed Monday–after prodding from the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee–that Alexi Giannoulias was in Canada on Sunday attending a fund-raiser at a trial lawyer convention in Vancouver that would benefit his Senate campaign. Fisher: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lee Fisher was in Canada yesterday to attend a reception with a group of American trial lawyers | Read More »

Obama’s Era of Uncertainty We were promised “hope and change,” but in the end, the election of Barack Obama ushered in an era of economic uncertainty highlighted by near double-digit unemployment and unprecedented debt. At a meeting of the National Governors Association in Boston this weekend, Erskine Bowles, formerly White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, offered a stark and sobering assessment of the | Read More »

Alternate headline: Jobs Were Saved A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the federal government’s effort to restore an offshore deepwater drilling moratorium, opening the door to resumed drilling in the Gulf while the legal fight continues.

Jobs gained / (lost) in June 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (prelim): (125,000) Jobs gained / (lost) in May 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (prelim): 433,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in April 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (final): 313,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in March 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (final): 208,000 Jobs | Read More »

It’s one of those worst-case nightmare scenarios that every worker from Maine to Hawaii has been experiencing for more than two years now, with one out of five Americans unable to find work in Barack Obama’s wonderland and unemployment benefits about to end for two million unemployed by Saturday. Once again Congress has descended into partisan bickering, as Congressional DeMarxists attempt to add more spending | Read More »

Uncertainty Hampering Job Creation Talking to WOWO 1190AM’s Charly Butcher this morning, Dan Coats said, “The policies coming out of Washington right now are not doing the job” to get our economy rolling again and create jobs. “[The] unemployment rate has only gone up, not down” thanks to the Obama-Ellsworth plans of “spending to stimulate” the economy. It has only led to “uncertainty” and more | Read More »

Jobs gained / (lost) in May 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (prelim): 431,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in April 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (prelim): 290,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in March 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (final): 208,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in February 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (final): 39,000 Jobs | Read More »

In November, Texas voters will go to the polls and choose between two starkly different visions for Texas. The first vision is one of limited government that has fostered an environment for good Texas jobs, economic growth, boundless opportunity, and greater personal freedom. The second, favored by Gov. Rick Perry’s opponent, is a vision of more government spending, more taxation, and expanded government control over | Read More »

Jobs gained / (lost) in April 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (prelim): 290,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in March 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (prelim): 230,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in February 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (final): 39,000 Jobs gained / (lost) in January 2010 per the US Dept of Labor (final): 14,000 Jobs gained | Read More »